Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Ambrose BierceDay, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose BierceBeware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.
Ambrose BierceABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose BiercePatriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Ambrose BierceHuman nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Ambrose BierceThis is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.
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